Hollywood Scandal

Hollywood Scandal: two members of the Academy Awards admit to having voted for 12 Years a Slave without seeing :

Less than a week after the Oscars , the film Steve McQueen ( winner of the evening ) is at the heart of a controversy .
L. A Times sounded the alarm: Review the influential Hollywood personalities , functioning Oscar goes wrong ! The site has devoted a long article to the intensive promotion 12 Years a Slave just before the Oscars and revealed, without naming names, that two members of the Academy Awards voted for Steve McQueen movie without having seen .

 The Oscars have they lost any legitimacy? The newspaper points to promotion techniques too intensive surrounding " movies Oscars" and sometimes INVOLVE this type of practice .  

For your considerationLa method is known : during the ceremonies season (roughly September to February ) , the distributors offer advertising pages in magazines and post videos "for your consideration" , while actors and directors of appointed movies multiply interviews and TV appearances .

 The goal is obviously to make the most of the talking feature films in competition, so that the voters of the various ceremonies of the Winter vote en masse for their projects. 

 Problem, the distributors who have the means to pay phenomenal campaigns crush the independent productions. This is the case for 12 Years , which has been in the spotlight for months . Since its first screening last September in the framework of the Festival Telluride, the feature film on slavery Steve McQueen has been shown in other important festivals such as Palm Springs, Toronto , winning the favor of almost all critical ( in the end, the film received 96 % positive reviews on Rotten Tomatoes ) .

Rating : art